In 1992, we took a fleet of DC-6 aircraft and sprayed much of Vancouver with an organic pesticide...from a height of 300 ft. I was director of communications for the project. Here’s why transparency and credibility is critical in any crisis including #coronavirus.

Delta Airlines 737-900 (DAL2288) leaking fuel on departure from Vegas tonight. The Delta pilot asks how bad does it look and one pilot replies like an airshow! 🤣 Audio via @theATCapp

🚨🇬🇧#BREAKING | NEWS ⚠️ A British Airways aircraft 787 ask’s for an emergency arrival after a Cell phone exploded and caught fire in the cabin. The plane departed from London and headed to Las Vegas. The plane was able to safely land.

BREAKING: Initial reports indicate a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base. Emergency crews are responding to the scene. Details remain limited.

BREAKING: Large U.S. Air Force plane, a B-52 Stratofortress, crashes near Edwards Air Force Base in California

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eleven skydivers and a pilot are dead after a plane crashed in Butler, Missouri, Sunday morning, sources tell FOX4.

🍁 🍁🍁🍁🍁 Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it. His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra. Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public. For 20 years he did it quietly. Then Monsanto came knocking. A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow. The file landed on Chopra's desk. He started reading the science. He started finding holes. The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans. If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk? His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data. His managers had a different idea. Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off. He refused. So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments. He kept refusing. Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer. In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada. Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken. It made headlines around the world. In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world. Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won. Then his own government fired him for winning. July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country. The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy. He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone. But here is what they could never take back. rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign. And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now. He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border. So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."

🌋 Massive eruption of Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala

👀 The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Mindanao caused parts of the seabed to rise by as much as 2 metres and the coastline has reportedly moved out by around 200 metres. The sudden uplift has exposed coral reefs, seagrass and marine habitats, leaving sea life stranded and causing damage to the underwater ecosystem. Officials found exposed coral and dead marine animals along affected areas. It’s incredible to think about the force needed to physically lift the seabed out of the ocean like this. 📷 DENR Soccsksargen

Fighter jet CRASHES in Washington

Video of crash here Fighter jet crashes near Rimrock Lake in Yakima County, Washington state; pilot ejected safely rumble.com/shorts/v7b9122

A great reminder to secure major furniture to walls and consider what can fall on top of you. Kitchens are typically the most dangerous room in a quake. Fireplaces with chimneys are also dangerous to be near when a quake hits.

It’s the first time I’ve heard of this disaster.... In 1987 the city of Goiânia in Brazil was hit by one of the worst radiation disasters in history and it started in the most unexpected way. Two scrap collectors broke into an abandoned medical clinic and found an old radiotherapy machine. Inside was a highly radioactive source containing caesium 137. Not realising the danger they broke it open and found a glowing blue substance. What followed was catastrophic. The material was passed around, handled, and even taken home because it looked unusual and almost beautiful, but it was silently deadly. Within days and weeks, multiple people became seriously ill, four people later died from radiation poisoning, around 250 were contaminated, and over 100000 people had to be screened. Entire areas of the city ended up contaminated and had to be decontaminated, with buildings demolished and radioactive waste sealed away.

Sideways rain is never good!! This was Ohio.

BREAKING: Enormous warehouse fire in Tracy, California, prompts massive emergency response. Major parts of the warehouse have reportedly completely collapsed.

👀 Another terrifying video showing the M7.8 earthquake that hit the Philippines. This is in Sarangani Province. 📹 Rellien Dave Zapico Yagon/FB

[BREAKING] George Washington Hospital on lockdown and pentagon was vacated few hours ago due to a leak of hazardous airborne materials.

Multiple Pentagon floors on lockdown due to 'hazardous materials' bbc.in/43vo3wX

It's a rare, catastrophic event coastal communities try to plan for, but a new study says if a local earthquake hits off the cost of Vancouver Island in the right location, it could trigger a tsunami that could beat official sirens and warnings and cause massive damage to one of B.C.'s most popular beach towns. cheknews.ca/tofino-needs-ver…

WOW! INCREDIBLE view of supercell thunderstorms near Wichita, Kansas from an airplane a short time ago! Thank you Meranda for sending this in!

Hundreds evacuated from their seaside homes in New Zealand's capital as 11-metre (36-foot) waves lash the coast u.afp.com/SDjk